Mining, Metallurgy and Minting in the Middle Ages. Vol. 3 : Continuing Afro-European Supremacy, 1250-1450 (African Gold Production and the Second and Third European Silver Production Long-cycles) (Mining, Metallurgy and Minting in the Middle Ages)

§16§In the years covered by this volume, 1250 1450, the production patterns, in both the European precious and base metal industries, first established in the twelfth century, and described in volume two, continued to be played out. This now took place however in the context of a continuous process of increasingly acute resource depletion, which finally culminated in the terminal mining crisis of the 1450s. Even as European silver production declined, however, compensatory supplies of precious metals became for the first time available as a counter-cyclical production pattern came to characterise a newly emergent European gold industry which by 1450 had displaced African gold as the main source of supply to European mints. African gold increasingly was supplied to African and Asiatic markets.§ Vol. I: Asiatic Supremacy, 425 1125 § Vol. 2: Afro-European Supremacy, 1125 1225 §13§"So kann man also jedem, der sich vertieft mit mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Münzen beschäftigt, dieses Buch nur ans Herz legen." MünzenRevue, 2007/1